Darren Kerr

Tom Crane Photography

The outdoor living room is especially popular in the evening when the light-weight concrete Dekko Avera fire table takes centre stage. The pergola is fully automated and can be controlled remotely including dimming and changing the hue of the LED lighting as well as rotating the louvers from fully closed to open 110 degrees.

Our client wanted a modern industrial style of backyard and we designed and build this outdoor environment to their excitement. Features include a new pool with precast concrete water feature wall that blends into a precast concrete firepit, an Ipe wood deck, custom steel and Ipe wood arbor and trellis and a precast concrete kitchen. Also, we clad the inside of the existing fence with corrugated metal panels. Photography: Daniel Driensky

Request Free Quote This stand-alone raised spa in Lake Forest, IL packs alot of features into a limited space, and yet feels spacious. Measuring 8'0" x 8'0", the raised spa has an automatic safety cover with stone lid system. Covered by a beautiful custom Pergola, the outdoor space features a fire pit and ample seating space. Photos by Larry Huene

Cedar Hot Tub with Wood Roll Cover and Ipe Decking.

Tamara Alvarez

Micro piscine carrée semi enterrée. Piscine 3x3m soit moins de 10m². Terrasse en bois. Espace détente. escalier en bois. Jardin sec de petits galets ocre. Plantation naturelle.

Minipiscina con struttura in cemento armato e rivestimento interno in PVC armato. Tutta la tecnologia utilizzata è di Piscine Castiglione. La piscina è riscaldata con scaldatore elettrico il quale garantisce un tempo breve di riscaldamento dell'acqua. All'interno della minipiscina è installo un impianto idromassaggio per quattro postazioni. Tutte le sedute sono rese confortevoli attraverso l'utilizzo del materassino Softwalk.

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How to fit everything into a small back yard....Pool, entertaining and animal accommodation. Additionally our client wanted low maintenance low maintenance and a year round landscape. The artificial turf was an excellent choice for both low maintenance and pet friendly. To keep small areas of turf in pristine condition provided the conditions is highly unlikely, so the artificial turf was an obvious choice.

A Memorial area family commissioned us to create a natural swimming pool in their back yard. The family already had a standard pool on premises, but it was isolated in an area of the yard not particularly suited to seating guests or hosting get-togethers. What they wanted was a second, natural swimming pool built that would serve as the hub of a new home outdoor entertainment area consisting of a new stone patio, comfortable outdoor seating, and a fire pit. They wanted to create something unique that would preserve as much of the natural features of the landscape as possible, but that would also be completely safe and fully functional as a swimming pool. We decided to design this new landscaping plan around a pre-existent waterfall that was already on the property. This feature was too attractive to ignore, and provided the ideal anchor point for a new gathering area. The fountain had been designed to mimic a natural waterfall, with stones laid on top of one another in such a way as to look like a mountain cliff where water spontaneously springs from the top and cascades down the rocks. At first glance, many would miss the opportunity that such a structure provides; assuming that a fountain designed like a cliff would have to be completely replaced to install a natural swimming pool. Our landscaping designers, however, came up with a landscape plan to transform one archetypal form into the other by simply adding to what was already there. At the base of the rocks we dug a basin. This basin was oblong in shape and varied in degrees of depth ranging from a few inches on the end to five feet in the middle. We directed the flow of the water toward one end of the basin, so that it flowed into the depression and created a swimming pool at the base of the rocks. This was easy to accomplish because the fountain lay parallel to the top of a natural ravine located toward the back of the property, so water flow was maintained by gravity. This had the secondary effect of creating a new natural aesthetic. The addition of the basin transformed the fountain’s appearance to look more like a cliff you would see in a river, where the elevation suddenly drops, and water rushes over a series of rocks into a deeper pool below. Children and guests swimming in this new structure could actually imagine themselves in a Rocky Mountain River. We then heated the swimming pool so it could be enjoyed in the winter as well as the summer, and we also lit the pool using two types of luminaries for complimentary effects. For vegetation, we used mercury vapor down lights to backlight surrounding trees and to bring out the green color of foliage in and around the top of the rocks. For the brown color of the rocks themselves, and to create a sparkling luminance rising up and out of the water, we installed incandescent, underwater up lights. The lights were GFIC protected to make the natural swimming pool shock proof and safe for human use.

Beautiful contemporary pool and deck, Integrated spill over spa with spa controls via smart phone, computer, tablet or at equipment room. LED lighting, salt water sensitization, gas fired boiler for rapid heat time, hidden automatic safety cover, hidden skimmer. David Noel

Hand made terracotta Italian tiles